AuthorTopic: MinGW = minialist GNU gcc for Windows (Read 6739 times)

" MinGW, a contraction of "Minimalist GNU for Windows", is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), and GNU Binutils, for use in the development of native Microsoft Windows applications. [...] for cross-hosted use on Unix or GNU/Linux, [... uses ...] Microsoft's standard system DLLs to provide the C-Runtime and Windows API. [...] a complete Open Source programming tool set which is suitable for the development of native MS-Windows applications, and which do not depend on any 3rd-party C-Runtime DLLs."

Hi Windozer. I never tried MinGW, but I did see some projects releasing code ready for it. I think that it is a great project, there is no reason to restrict your code to a single platform or architecture. I would love to see more and more Foss for Windows (there is quite a lot of them already).

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"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."Jorge Luis Borges, Avatars of the Tortoise. --Jumalauta!!

yes, this is indeed a great idea. Just got this going on my win-based laptop. The MSYS stuff is wonderful! Here's a list of the GNU routines you can run *directly* in windows without a VM or cygwin! Pretty sweet, eh? Note the sh.exe

Woha rxvt? I have been looking for a good terminal for windows for years. The Putty console is good but I dont know how to run some stuff on it besides the ssh stuff. That list lookd real good for the basic tasks, some times cygwin is a bit overkill.

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"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."Jorge Luis Borges, Avatars of the Tortoise. --Jumalauta!!